Month: May 2012

  • MarcEdit 5.8 Update

    Happy belated memorial day.  I put the finishing touches on the latest MarcEdit update.  It includes a number of enhancements.  Here’s the list: Enhancement:  Call number generator will now test oclc numbers as keywords to catch oclc numbers that have been merged and turned into cross references (019). Enhancement: MARC SQL Explorer — hardcoded field…

  • Maybe all libraries do need coffee shops

    Having gone 34 years without being a coffee drinker, I personally never got why people wanted coffee shops in libraries.  But over the last year, my wife and Greenhill Farms, a Kona Coffee Grower in Hawaii, convinced me that not all coffee is bad.  I’m so convinced, that having a morning cup of coffee (black,…

  • A Sense of Service: Service outside of the public eye

    Last week, I was on a panel at the Oregon Library Association entitled, A Sense of Service.  The title of the panel and the impetus for the discussion came out of the Oregon Library Association’s Quarterly publication, or more specifically, Janet Webster’s article entitled, “A Sense of Service(1).”  The article, and the publication in general,…